Windows Tips & Tricks UPDATE--August 18, 2003: "Q. How can I change the default ActiveX component download location?
A. By default, when Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) installs an ActiveX control on your machine, Windows stores the component in the \%systemroot%\downloaded program files folder (e.g., C:\windows\downloaded program files). To change this location, perform the following steps:
Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings registry subkey.
Double-click the ActiveXCache value, change the path in the value data to a new location, then click OK.
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ActiveX Cache registry subkey.
Double-click the 0 value, change the path in the value data to the same location you specified in Step 3, then click OK.
Restart IE for the changes to take effect.
Valid registry values can be a folder on the local hard disk, a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) location, or a mapped network drive. However, be aware that running the ActiveX cache from a network location can degrade performance."
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Office System (2003) SP1 Slipstreaming: "msiexec /p G:\Office2003SP1\OWC11SP1ff.msp /a G:\Office2003\OWC11.MSI shortfilenames=true /qb"
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Friday, September 16, 2005
DS jobs not finishing - deepfreeze: " RE: DS jobs not finishing - deepfreeze
BECU-perhaps i can help you. i understand exactly what you want to do and have wrestled with deepfreeze and their lack of return codes etc. what i finally got to work here was to get psshutdown from sysinternals.com i run that as a software install on the machine and give it the proper commandline to reboot the machine it will finish and return a error code when it is done and nicely reboot the machine(this is after i have sent the deepfreeze 'thaw on next reboot' commandline to it like you mentioned). the machine will then come back and be free to run jobs on. i have created ms patch jobs for all the current winupdates and run them in large batches on classrooms with the above mentioned. to take it further, which i havent yet, ive wanted to run dfc /isthawed after everything is done to be ASSURED that machines are frozen again and if not run df freeze again. but usually right now ive been running it while im here and can monitor their status when complete.
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BECU-perhaps i can help you. i understand exactly what you want to do and have wrestled with deepfreeze and their lack of return codes etc. what i finally got to work here was to get psshutdown from sysinternals.com i run that as a software install on the machine and give it the proper commandline to reboot the machine it will finish and return a error code when it is done and nicely reboot the machine(this is after i have sent the deepfreeze 'thaw on next reboot' commandline to it like you mentioned). the machine will then come back and be free to run jobs on. i have created ms patch jobs for all the current winupdates and run them in large batches on classrooms with the above mentioned. to take it further, which i havent yet, ive wanted to run dfc /isthawed after everything is done to be ASSURED that machines are frozen again and if not run df freeze again. but usually right now ive been running it while im here and can monitor their status when complete.
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